Customize External Links and add Icon
This plugin adds and removes link relations such as nofollow and noreferrer to your external links. Furthermore, indication of external links by adding a custom icon to the link text. This plugin also adds automatically that external links will be opended in an new tab.
- Add rel=nofollow for all the external links of your posts / pages / menus
- Add target=_blank for all the external links of your posts / pages / menus
- Exclude domains from addding rel=nofollow for the selected external links
- Remove rel=noreferrer for all the external links of your posts / pages
- Activate custom icon to indicate external links
- Choose from different icons to mark links
- Superscript Icon or regular size
- Add custom CSS class to icon
The plugin is written by Janine, and is based on CyberNetikz Nofollow for external links plugin.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
- Give a name to your project
- Download the Installer Package
- Install & activate the plugin locally
- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.



